By Sara Bright When Sister Wives premiered on TLC on 26 September 2010, it arrived with the unmistakable whiff of spectacle. Here was a television…
By Sara Bright When Shelley Duvall died on 11 July 2024, the world saw two pictures: her terrified face behind the door in Stanley Kubrick’s…
By Sara Bright When 39 girls filed into the old Surrey Street Music Hall in Sheffield on 12 March 1878, nobody could have predicted that…
By Sara Bright Only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still stands. The Great Pyramid of Giza, built around 2560 BCE for…
By Sara Bright In the summer of 1834, a steamship carried two of France’s most celebrated writers from Paris to Venice. Alfred de Musset, the…
By Sara Bright In 1965, at the Württemberg State Theatre in Stuttgart, John Cranko unveiled a ballet that had no right to exist. The intendant…
By Sara Bright There is a particular cruelty to the way the world remembers Priscilla Presley. She is frozen at seventeen, dark-haired and porcelain-skinned, standing…
By Sara Bright When Prince William stood before a gathering at the Saatchi Gallery in the summer of 2024, he was not unveiling a royal…
By Sara Bright The world keeps ending on screen, and audiences keep staying home. That, in the starkest terms, is the paradox confronting post-apocalyptic cinema…
By Sara Bright Sara Bright On a sun-drenched Easter Sunday, 28 April 2024, an 87-year-old man in white arrived by helicopter on the island of…